At a Japan summit, the world leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States discussed issues such as global economic growth, refugees, climate, and energy. They said they’d take action to get the Paris Agreement ratified or accepted as quickly as possible. According to them, it is vital to pursue clean energy if Paris’ climate goals are to be met.

In their declaration, the G7 leaders said, “Given the fact that energy production and use account for around two-thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions, we recognize the crucial role that the energy sector has to play in combating climate change.”

Subsidies have been decreasing generally, but not in every G7 country The UK recently offered tax breaks for some oil producers, Canada continued some natural gas subsidies, and Japan financed some new coal-fired power plants, the Guardian reports. Overseas Development Institute research fellow Shelagh Whitley seemed cautiously optimistic about the declaration, even as she told the paper that G7 leaders should have committed to a deadline of 2020 if they were truly serious about the Paris Agreement. She said, “We already see [some in] the G7 going in the wrong direction since Paris. Just because they are saying this [about fossil fuel subsidies], it’s not a fait accompli.”